Vol. III. 
1884. 
No 11-12. 
HELPING 
MAIDS. 
CONTENTS. 
l'A(il 
Editorial Items 00 
1885 100 
Hospitals for Children 101. 
Preventive Work Needed... 102/ 
f Need of the Day 
/The Children’s Hospital of r 
the District of Columbia. . 10.‘>. 
llow We Work Together. ... 100. 
Helpful Mottoes 100. 
Correspondence HO. 
Notes ill. 
HUNTINGDON, PA. HELPING HANDS. 
HOME FOR ORPHAN AND FRIENDLESS 
CHILDREN. 
HUNTINGDON, l'A. 
Opened March first. 1881. Chartered January 8th, 1883. 
Organized to meet a special want in the community in which 
ic is located. Present capacity, twenty-five to thirty. En- 
dowment, nothing. 
OBJECTS. 
1. To provide a refuge and training for Orphan and Friend- 
less chiloren. 
2. To assist poor fathers and mothers in the care and proper 
training of their children The parent, when able, contribu- 
ting to the support of the child. 
3. To find good homes for children in private families. 
PARTICULAR AIMS. 
1. To promote morality. 
2. To lay the foundation of useful and honorable lives. 
3. To afford a field for the unrestrained exercise of Christian 
charity. 
4. To help people to help themselves. 
TERRITORY. 
X. The town and vicinity of Huntingdon. 
2. The most worthy from abroad without respect to locality. 
SUPPORT. 
1. By “ Free will offerings," from friends of the cause. 
2. By stipulated sums from parents or friends of children. 
PRINCIPLE—NON-SECTARIAN. 
MANAGEMENT. 
1 By a Board of 13 Gentlemen Trustees, of whom each 
church ot the town has the privilege ot eleoting one. The 
additional members are elected by the Board. 
2. By a Board of 18 Lady Managers, elected by the Hel 
ping Hand Society of Huntingdon. 
SPECIAL NEEDS. 
1. Sympathy. 
2. Means to support and extend the work. 
3 The prayers of all God-fearing people. 
Trustees.— Pres. -Wm. Lewis. 
Vice Pres. K. Allen Lovell. 
Sec. Hugh Lindsay. 
Treas. K. Allen Lovell. 
Managers.—Pres. Mrs. Wm Woods. 
Vice Pres. Mrs. James Quinter. 
Sec. Miss Ida Peclit. 
Treasurer, Mrs. L. S. Johnson. 
1) Esnmert, Supt., 
Mrs. Susan Kessler, Matron. 
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THE WASHINGTON COUNTY HOME 
FOR ORPHAN CHILDREN. 
HAGERSTOWN, MD. 
This institution recently organized and chartered is sim 
ilar in objects, aims, principle and special needs to the 
Home at Huntingdon Pa., with which institution, in respect 
to its oriin, it is intimately related. In territory It is Urn 
ited to Washington County. In management it has a Board 
of Trustees, fifteen (15) in number, nine from the town and 
six from the country. The Trustees are elected by the con 
tributors. An Advisory Board, consisting of one gentleman 
in each election district of the ciunty will cooperate in the 
management and to secure support, consider applications 
for admission to the Home and assist in preserving an over- 
si ht of children placed out. 
Pres.—c. W. Humrichhouse, 
Vice Pres.—U. E. Roach, 
Sec.—Jacob Roesner, 
Treas.—Dr. M. A. Berry, 
Miss Annia McCarty, Matron. 
D. Emmert, Supt., 
It is the mutual aim of these institutions to pre- 
serve the family idea, and to settle children in per- 
manent homes as soon as suitable places can he 
found. The best that can be done will be done to 
secure to the little unfortunates the benefits and 
blessings of Christian homes. A careful oversight 
will be kept of them protecting them from impo- 
sition, guarding them from evil influences, and se- 
curing to them suitable rewards for faithful service. 
By transferring children when necessary from one 
county to another, placing them beyond the range 
of influences that have hindered their moral and 
material advancement these Homes as agencies 
hope to accomplish much good. 
The Divine obligation to support his or her child 
is not lifted from any parent. The Homes are de- 
signed to help people to help themselves and are to 
be regarded as a means to an end and not an end in 
themselves. The end is the model family life for 
every individual,—a home after God’s own plan. 
HELPING HANDS 
Defends the poor and fatherless. 
Pleads for justice to the Afflicted and Needy. 
Strives to inspire Sympathy, Love and Pity for 
the fallen. 
Teaches the mutual dependence of the Rich and 
the Poor. 
Points out ways of doing good. 
Believes in Enlightened Charity. 
Recommends care in the Distribution of Alms. 
Cautions against that form of Charity which takes 
away self-reliance from the Poor. 
Accepts the Bible as the guide to true benevolence 
and the Basis of all Moral Reform. 
TERMS, 
FIFTY CENTS A YEAR. 
With the Morning Star, the Carlisle Indian 
School paper, for one year, seventy five cent?. 
All subscriptions expire with the year. 
Back numbers furnished to new subscribers. 
Free to the poor. 
Note.—If you believe In the mission of this paper we kind- 
ly ask you to aid in extending its circulation. It is not limited 
to the interests of the above institutions. The Managers ot 
neither are responsible for its publication. It represents with* 
out partiality, every good work for the poor and help’ess 
and invites the cooperaiton of workers in every field. 
Address 
HELPING HANDS, 
Huntingdon, Pa., 
or I). Emmkht, 
Hagerstown, Md. Vol. III. 
HUNTINGDON, PA., NOV.-DEC., 1884. 
No. 11-12. 
HELPING HANDS. 
CONDUCTED BY D. EMMERY. 
ENTERED IN THE POST OFFICE IN HUNTINGDON, PA., AS SECOND CLASS MATTER 
HUNTINGDON PA , NOV.-DEC., 1884. 
Light is the task when many shun the toil. 
—Bryant. 
Hel ping Hands will be continued, size and 
price the same. 
Toil is the lot of all, and bitter woe 
The fate of many. —Bryant. 
Mrs. Puncheon, of the Children’s Aid Socie- 
ty. Philadelphia, is going out through the 
State to aid the counties in providing for their 
dependent children. The work she has done 
in Philadelphia and surrounding counties en- 
titles her to much credit. She is an enthusiast 
in a good cause. We will be glad to report 
her progress and the success of her efforts. 
The Aid Society people work with the distinc- 
tive idea that the private family is the best 
place for the child, and the success of their 
operations has been recognized throughout the 
State. 
With what ease might a work for the pub 
lie good be carried on in every county if all 
would unite in the effort. In the children, all 
are interested, or should be. Without respect 
to creed or class, all may unite in alleviating 
suffering and preparing the way for worthy 
achievements in the unfortunate and friend- 
less. Professions of interest in a cause 
amounts to little unless proven by correspond- 
ing acts. To bid God-speed, and not aid to 
that end, is not inspiring to workers who are 
overburdened however good their cause.” 
“ Light is the task when many share the toil.” 
Intemperance and its kindred vices have 
branded the heads and backs and feet of 
thousands who now are orphans or worse. 
Calamities of vaious kinds disperse families, 
and lacerate hearts which only tender human 
sympathy can heal. The world is full of sor- 
row, but there is no time to repine. Duty 
speaks loudly, and calls for manly struggle. 
The children, the children, let us save the 
children. Bright jewels sparkle oftimes be- 
neath the rough and untidy exteriors. We 
cannot save all, we cannot help all, for some 
will elude your charity, and spurn your 
sympathy; but at last the time may come to 
do the good ye seek, lie read}' for the oppor- 
tunity. 
Bibles for the children are needed just now. 
The desire has been to present each child, on 
going out, with a Bible. This desire has only 
been partially fulfilled. Friends have at dif- 
ferent times contributed to the “ Bible Fund,” 
but not in sums sufticientto give every one the 
precious gift, The name of the Home from 
which the child is sent and the name of the 
person, class or school which donates the Bible 
is written on the cover. Most blessed results 
may follow this scattering of the “ leaves of 
light.” If space allowed we could relate some 
touching incidents illustrative of the apprecia- 
tion of the Bible gifts. Fifty cents will pur- 
chase a neat Bible, and we invite contributions 
to this fund at Christmas. 100 
HELPING HANDS. 
“The Pennsylvania Society for the Protec- 
tion of Children from Cruelty” is one of the 
most active organizations we have knowledge 
of. The range of their work can scarcely be 
comprehended. The following report for Sep- 
tember will show what is done on an average 
every month: 
There wei’e reportod 76 cases of cruelty or 
neglect, involving the custody of 154 children. 
In the investigation of these, 27 arrests were 
made, and 73 children removed from parents, 
guardians or others and disposed of as follows: 
Sent to private families, 25; Southern Home, 
6; Catholic Home for girls, 10: Children's Aid 
Society, 3; St. Mary Street Day Nursery, 4; 
Magdalen Asylum, 2; Colored Shelter, 2; House 
of the Goed Shepherd, 1; St. John’s Orphan 
Asylum, 13; House of Refuge, 5; St. Vincent's 
Home, 1; and Newsboj’s' Home, 1. 
The placing out of children is attended with 
labor, as is all other important business. 
Homes are not found by waiting. Now and 
again applications may be made for children, 
usually of considerable age and capable of ser- 
vice, but almost as a rule the best homes are 
found among those who have manifested some 
interest in the children, or who have been led 
to think and feel for the homeless. If the 
scores of children are to find good homes we 
must be awake to work, nor does the labor end 
with the finding of persons willing to take 
children and the placing of the child. Then 
follows the responsible duty of supervision. 
Now and then we are reminded of our over- 
sight and neglect, such as is common under 
pressure in a new enterprise, Treatment ot 
some cases which rise before us at this mo- 
ment, deserve public exposure, and if it were 
thought that the interests of the eause would 
be best served in the clearest statement of facts 
we would not hesitate to make them. We be- 
lieve more strongly every day that the best 
thing we can do for the children is to get 
them into good homes. For the many model 
homes we have found we are devoutly thank- 
ful, but we shrink from the conviction that 
the golden rule is often violated in that poor 
children a e not always treated as those who 
have them would wish to have their own treat-, 
ed under similar circumstances. We wish it 
understood that these societies are not inter- 
ested in furnishing cheap labor to any indi- 
vidual. They are designed for the help and 
protection of children and promise for fair 
consideration of the rights and respect for 
the feelings of their wards ample and just re- 
turns of service. 
» 
It is usually satisfactory when exact figures 
can be given. One set of figures may repre- 
sent a work wholly differing in sco,e and ex- 
tent from another represented by the same 
number. Thus what in a thickly inhabited 
district, as a city, would appear moderate, 
might in a country district be immense. Again, 
what abundance of means would secure with 
little outlay of energy, limited means may have 
accomplished with double the expense of phys- 
ical and mental strength. After the amount 
of writing, talking, journeying, etc., through 
more than three years, compared with what 
ought to be done, the following results appear 
small, and by those who look from higher 
planes and more fruitful fields they may ap- 
pear insignificant, but we give them for what 
they are worth: 
The whole number of different children ad- 
mitted to the Homes—Hagerstown and Hunt- 
ingdon—has been 138. The whole number 
placed in families, 68. The whole number re- 
maining in families, 54; in hospitals, 6; in re- 
formatories. 2; in homes, December 1st, 39. 
The total number remaining under the charge 
of the Homes, 101. 
1885. 
This number closes the third volume of 
Helping Hands. For its irregular appearance 
we are moved to make some apology. At the 
beginning of the year the Home in Maryland 
took much attention, later a painful illness 
prohibited work, and dependence upon the 
charity of publishers caused delays against 
which we dared not murmur. As we approach 
the fourth year we make no rash promises, but 
will endeavor to do the best we can to keep HELPING HANDS. 
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bright the chain that binds the interests of 
the workers together. We scarcely thought 
that we would renew the effort to put forth this 
little sheet during another year, but solicita- 
tions of devoted friends of the cause it repre- 
sents, and encouraging testimonials of its help- 
fulness. with evidence of the substantial bene- 
fits which follow its publication, induce us to 
continue. In the beginning we felt the need 
of a paper, that we might show what is being 
done in other places; the same need is felt to- 
day, and with it there is also another, to show 
what we are doing and how we are trying to 
do it. It is impossibe to be free from the 
weight of responsibility with the care of an 
hundred children pressing and the number 
constantly increasing. So when we enter our 
plea for continued co-operation in carrying on 
the paper as a help to the Homes and a means 
of communication with our friends, we trust 
we may be heard. Last year we fell short in 
meeting expenses. For the coming year may 
we have a united effort to insure success. 
HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN. 
There are few more beautiful forms of char- 
ity than that which is found ministering to 
the relief of pain and physical deformity. 
Many a poor child has found poverty doubly 
hard by reason of bodily defects which surgi- 
cal skill timely applied might have ameliorat- 
ed, if not remedied. That was a noble philan- 
thropy which projected hospitals for children. 
The beneficence of these institutions can only 
be fully realized by a visit to the wards, or by 
witnessing some of the many wonderful opera- 
tions that are there performed. 
We have lately been drawn into very inti- 
mate relations with two of these institutions, 
and for the benefit of our readers and the 
friends of poor children, we give some account 
of several operations we were permitted to wit- 
ness. 
The article descriptive of the Children’s 
Hospital at Washington, D. C., we have by the 
kindness of Dr. Adams, one of the attending 
physicians. In that Hospital we have from 
the Home at Hagerstown a little boy, and have 
the privilege of sending others. Not having, 
visited the institution personally, we cannot 
speak of it but through the doctors article 
and the report of our matron, Miss McCarty, 
who took the child there in September. Upon 
the occasion of the first visit to any institution 
of a special class no one is so well able to judge 
of its merits as by comparison with others of 
similar character. We feel justified by what 
we have heard in asserting that the Children’s 
Hospital at Washington is all that is claimed 
for it. At no distant day we hope to visit it 
and will then speak more fully of its noble 
work. 
On 22d street, near Walnut, in Philadelphia, 
stands a modest-looking but substantial build- 
ing bearing the inscription, “Children’s Hos- 
pital.” You mount a dozen stone steps and 
enter the main hall. If you stop in the office 
and talk awhile with the young physician who 
is in attendance, and enquire of the origin of 
the charity, you will be impressed with the 
quiet and unostentatious manner in which the 
work has been conducted. You will learn, 
perhaps, that years ago (how man}' I do not 
now remember, perhaps a score,) some good 
people projected this enterprise, and that 
through these years it has continued its work 
uninterruptedly. You may be handed a report 
of the last year, and by reference to its pages 
you will see a wonderful list of cases treated, 
and a list of worthy and honorable names as 
directors, physicians and surgeons. If it is a 
seasonable hour you may be invited to pass 
through the. different wards, where may be 
found from fifty to sixty-five children. The 
capacity is the latter number, the average 
rarely falls below the former. 
Here are the little sufferers, with all imagin- 
able ills, outside of the contagious and hope- 
lessly deformed. The Hospital is a place for 
the treatment of diseases and deformities with 
a view to their cure or improvement, and the 
incurable cases, so pronounced, are not re- 
tained usually to the exclusion of the more 
hopeful. Each child has a cot. each ward a 
full corps of nurses—day nurses and night 
nurses. Everything is scrupulously clean. 
Pictures adorn the walls. Playthings—books 102 
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und toys—are abundant, and for those who 
can sit up in bed little tables are arranged for 
their convenience in disposing of their play- 
things. One is wonderfully impressed with 
the care taken to secure comfort to the little 
sufferers. 
Here and there you will see a case that will 
draw more largely upon your sympathies. It 
may be a case of hip disease, where with 
weights and pulleys the poor little one is drawn 
and extended, so that the affected parts may 
be permitted to heal naturally after the remo- 
val of a portion of the bone; or it may be some 
poor child lately brought in with fractured 
bones, the result of an accident perhaps, as I 
myself saw, from being run over in the street. 
If it be Wednesday, and about 11.30 a. m., 
j'ou will see coming in one after another young 
men and men of riper jears. The conversation 
of these will soon reveal their mission. They 
enter a small side room, and if you are permit- 
ted to follow or have courage to go, you may 
see what will impress you as nothing you have 
seen before will do. This is the operating 
room, and the day and hour for operating. 
Many newly-fledged medical men may be pres- 
ent, but the operator is never a novice. To 
the institution is given the wisdom and skill 
of some of the most learned men of the profes- 
sion in the city. 
The first case brought in on the day of my 
visit wTas a little boy with hip disease. He was 
given ether, and in his unconscious condition 
was laid on the cushioned table. A deep in- 
cision was made into the hip. The thigh bone 
or funur was cut from its deep.socket and 
by strong muscular effort of the surgeon, the 
head of this bone was forced out and about 
two inches sawed off. The limb was then re- 
turned to its natural position, bandages and 
padding applied, and the little fellow, all un- 
conscious still, was carried away to his cot, 
wdiere a weight was attached and the extension 
of the limb produced. The result, we were 
told, will be a cartilaginous union of bones, 
forming a false joint, and the child will event- 
ually be enabled to walk. The time occupied 
in this operation wras remarkably short. The 
next case was the little boy whom I had taken 
down. The tendons of his foot were out, 
without the appearance of blood on the out- 
side, and the foot forced into a natural posi- 
tion. Several operations will be necessary for 
him. The third was a remarkable case of 
bow-legs. My curiosity was aroused to know 
how such a case would be helped. The bones 
of the leg below the knee were cut by means 
of a chisel driven in with great force. After 
which the limb was straightened and held in 
position by plaster. Judging by the appear- 
ance of a similar case operated upon some 
weeks previous, the deformity will be over- 
come. The last case was that of a little girl, 
whose nose was entirely, and lip partially, 
eaten away by an ulcer. The operation con- 
sisted in trimming the edges of the lip and 
stitching them together. It was a bloody 
act. Long before it was completed, the in- 
fluence of the ether ceased to be felt, and the 
spurting of blood and her shrieks were terrible. 
It was a desperate case and when completed 
will certainly be a most interesting one. At 
least three operations will follow in which flaps 
of skin will be cut from her forehead and 
cheeks, and a new nose will be formed. 
What wonders surgery has achieved! 
Professor Ashurst of the Pennsylvania Uni- 
versity, performed the operations. He is a 
most genial gentlemen; and an acknowledged 
authority in his profession. 
With a feeling of devout thankfulness to 
God, and veneration for the benevolence and 
skill of men, I left that room and house of 
suffering. 
PREVENTIVE WORK NEEDED. 
If a score of men should accidentally go 
over a precipice and lie mangled below, it 
would not take long to arouse the sympathies 
of men who, by their personal help or their 
means, would come to their rescue. But sup- 
pose some man at the top was quietly keeping 
watch, and warning travellers of their danger, 
and preventing them from going over the 
precipice, think you that equal enthusiasm 
could be aroused on his behalf? Now, much 
of our humane work such as is done in ro- HELPING HANDS. 
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formatory institutions, Magdalen and found- 
ling asylums and the like, is only the doctor 
at the bottom trying to fix lip men who have 
gone over; while our mission schools, kinder- 
gartens, day nurseries, guilds and such like, 
is the man at the top, preventing the mischief 
taking place. Since men have gone wrong we 
certainly owe a duty to them, but why should 
we have this fiood of sentiment that sends the 
doctor and not pay a like attention to the man 
at the top who certainly is the greater of the 
benefactors. In other words, we ought to go 
to work in cool reason and do more vigorously 
the preventive work.—Rev. C. Daniel. 
THE NEED OF THE DAY. 
It has been well said that all around us 
there seethes and swelters a huge mass ot 
helpless, hopeless, poverty-stricken, wretched 
and depraved humanity, stretching forth its 
hands for sympathy and deliverance; while at 
the same time philanthropic men and women 
in large numbers are doing their utmost to 
snatch a few perishing ones from destruction, 
but are often sadly at a loss to know what is 
best to do, and how to do it. 
Whether we can save an}' whom we want to 
save is a problem which has at least in every 
case, one unknown factor in it. Whether our 
assistance assists, depends ultimately upon 
the will or the moral nature of those who are 
assisted. It often looks as if there is nothing 
assistable left in some of the applicants for our 
help; so far at least as this world is concerned, 
they are simply dangerous to society, and 
every individual of them is a center of moral 
contagion. But there is one thing which is 
absolutely certain, namely, that union and 
co operation in charitable effort offers the only 
hopeful prospect of an adequate provision for 
rescuing the perishing, while at the same 
time it effectually precludes waste of resources. 
There is no such abundance of means that we 
can be indifferent to waste which is going on, 
and so long as the established charities of the 
community, as well as its daily alms, are ad- 
ministered without system and more or less 
blindly and fitfully under impulses of com- 
passionate feeling, it is impossible to secure 
that adequate relief which many deserving 
cases require. The imperative need of the 
day in common charitable work, the helping 
of the poor, is Union, Co-operation, Organi- 
zation.— The Monthly Register. 
THE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF THE 
OF COLUMBIA. 
— 
!/ By Samuel S. Adams, A. M., M. I). 
(\5ne of the Assistant Attending Physicians.) 
— 
In these prosperous times it may seem a 
small matter to establish a new charity, but 
in the gloomy days of seventy and seventy- 
one, when the wealth of many disappeared 
like the snow before the noonday sun, when 
millionaires were reduced to penury, and when 
the financial world was tottering to its base, 
to interest men and women in an institution 
for the care of poor sick children of a large 
city, was no small task. Yet even at such a 
time a few large-hearted men and women con- 
ceived and founded the Children’s Hospital 
of the District of Columbia, an institution 
which now ranks second to none of its kind 
in the world. 
Four of the younger practioners and one 
laymen calling to their aid some of the leading 
older members of the profession, and inviting 
the co-operation and assistance of some of our 
best known and most charitable citizens, both 
male and female, after several private and 
general meetings, at length agreed upon a 
plan and organized under the general laws of 
the District of Columbia. 
The organization consisted of a Board of 
20 directors, 15 laymen and 5 physicians. 
These latter to constitute the consulting 
medical staff. The attending staff was com- 
posed ot four physicians. The executive 
management was in the hands of the Hospital 
Administration which was composed of the 
President, Treasurer, Secretary, Committee, 
Chairmen and Consulting, and Attending 
Staff. 
An auxilary body selected from the lady 
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Visitors undertook the domestic management 
and began their good work by pledging them- 
selves to furnish twelve beds, which they did, 
and on the 8th of February, 1871, the institu- 
tion was formally opened in a building rented 
for the purpose at the corner of F and 13th 
streets. 
The first patient was a little white boy who 
had long suffered from disease of the hip- 
joint. It was upon this patient that Dr. 
Francis A. Ashford performed for the first 
time in this city, the operation of removal of 
the head of the thigh-bone for the relief of hip 
disease. The operation was successful and 
the patient, grown to manhood, is now a 
prosperous citizen of this District; a memorial 
to the skill of Ashford, and to the value of the 
Hospital as a public and efficient charity. 
I'he rooms rapidly filled with patients and 
it soon became evident that a larger building 
must be had. The interest in the institution 
had become general and the citizens freely 
contributed in various ways towards its main- 
tenance In 1873, the Hospital was removed 
to the large double building on E. bet. 8th and 
fith Streets, where increased room enlarged 
the accommodations. 
During all this time active measures had 
been taken to build a special hospital building 
and for this purpose, all the surplus funds 
were set aside. This determination to build, 
developed hearty co operation and commenda- 
tion, and promises to materially assist in the 
work were freely made. A square of ground 
was purchased and the building commenced 
in 1878, and in October of that year the sick 
children were removed to the handsome and 
complete structure shown in the illustration. 
But the good work was not confined to the 
Hospital proper. There was attached to it a 
Dispensary at which poor people, old as well 
as young, received treatment gratuitously. In 
187(1, after the opening of the Central Free 
Dispensary, the directors decided to discon- 
tinue the treatment of adults, and the maxi- 
mum age was fixed at sixteen years. This 
sensibly reduced the dispensary service for a 
time, but was soon met by the increased 
number of children. The impression had gone 
abroad that this was an institution for 
children alone, and the siek soon availed them- 
selves of its advantages. The service was in- 
creased so rapidly that the Directors have felt 
compelled during the present year to lower the 
maxiumum age to twelve years. 
In the midst of this continued prosperity, 
the Institution was not without its sorrows. 
One by one, prominent men of the directors 
fell by the way-side. Then the same dread 
enemy cast his shaft at the Consulting Board 
and cut down the venerable Dr. Thomas 
Miller, first chairman of the Hospital Admin- 
istration, and within a short time his successor 
in that office. Dr. W. P. Johnston, neither of 
whom ever flagged in their efforts to make the 
institution worthy of its object. 
Soon after Dr. Johnston’s death, the Hos- 
pital was called upon to mourn the loss of Dr. 
Vm. B. Drinkard, who with Drs. Busey, Ash- 
ford and W. W. Johnston, constituted the first 
attending staff. Dr. Drinkard was a polished 
gentleman a thorough scholar, a skilful 
ophthalmologist, and a devoted worker in the 
institution, and in his death the Hospital lost 
one of its most popular surgeons, and the com 
munity a man whose career gave promise of a 
brilliant future. 
The next great loss the institution sus- 
tained was in the sudden death of Dr. James 
('. Hall, also in turn chairman of the Hospital 
Administration. Dr. Hall was probably the 
most distinguished surgeon of his day in 
Washington City, and was said at one time 
to have attended nearly everyone of promi- 
nence at the National Capital, from the 
President down. Before the founding of the 
Children's Hospital, he had retired from active 
practice, and was loathe to unite in establish- 
ing the Hospital owing to ill-health; but by 
the importunities of his friends he was in- 
duced to lend the encouragement of his name 
on condition that he was not to be called upon 
for active work. He was a man of most 
generous impulses, and affectionate nature and 
it was not long before his interest in the little 
sufferers, began to win him to active work in 
their behalf. He could not remain a mere 
figure-head, and in his capacity as chairman CIULDTEN’s HOSPITAL, WASHINGTON, I). ('. 106 
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of the executive management, he actively 
attended to the duties of the office, besides keep- 
ing an economical eye on the expenditures, 
and resisting every effort at lavish and un- 
necessary improArements. So earnestly was he 
interested in the work, and so fully did its plan 
and scope meet his approval, that he be- 
queathed to it his valuable medical library, 
and made it jointly with the Washington 
Orphan As37lum, his residuary legatee. 
Hardly had the institution recovered from 
the shock of Dr. Hall’s death, when it was 
again called upon to mourn the sudden demise 
of Dr. Ashford, another of its founders. One 
needs but to look at the surgical ward to 
see stamped upon it, the very character of 
Ashford. His smiling countenance and gentle 
touch gave courage and hope to the little 
sufferer on the verge of an important and 
hazardous operation. His interest did not 
flag even to the day of his death. When he 
could speak only a few wrords at a time, he 
called one who was guarding his ebbing life, 
and gave explicit directions as to the manage- 
ment of an apparatus that was then attached 
to a little bo}7 for the relief of hip-disease 
One by one the shining lights go out, and 
soon after Ashford’s death; that courteous 
gentleman, generous and self-sacificing sur- 
geon Dr. Johnson Eliot, was called from earth. 
During this period also, several of the most 
influential and tireless ladyworkers fell by the 
way-side. Among these may be mentioned, 
Mrs. Admiral Powell, and Mesdames Cowruse 
Whitney, and Marcy. 
The beautful hospital building is situated 
near the northern boundar}7, but within the 
city’s limits upon a large square of ground, 
and without any obstruction to interfere with 
a free circulation of air The outlook on 
all sides is cheerful, and a good view7 of 
Washington and the adjacent country, and the 
Potamic as far as Alexandria, can be had from 
the various parts of the building. The grounds 
are beautifully ornamented with flowers, shrub- 
bery and wralks. The ladies recently erected 
a large and handsome pavilion, in the grounds 
back of the building, for the comfort and 
pleasure of the children during those days 
when the convalescents can safely have the 
freedom of the grounds. This is a beautiful 
structure, and is a creditable display of the 
good taste, thoughtfulness and judgment of 
the lady visitors. 
From the illustration it will be seen that the 
structure consists of a main building and two 
wings. The former is principally used for 
executive and domestic purposes; the latter 
contain the hospital wards and appurtenances. 
The first floor of the main building consists 
of four large rooms, used as kitchen, laundry, 
store-room and servants’ room respectively. 
The second floor is similarly divided. On 
entering the main hall, the first room on the 
right is a neat reception room, and, unlike the 
parlors of most hospitals, is conspicuous for 
its simplicity. Upon its walls are hanging 
crayons of the directors and physicians who 
have died while in the service of the institu- 
tion. Behind this is a cheerful dining-room 
for the resident staff and matron. The front 
room on the left is the library, containing the 
valuable Hall Medical library. At present 
this room is used as an operating room. Back 
of this, across a wide corridor leading to the 
surgical ward, is the Clothes Boom, which 
contains stationary presses admirably adapted 
for their purpose. 
The third floor is divided into four large 
rooms and a hall bed-room. The front room 
on the right, which is convenient to the 
wards, is for the resident physician and his 
assistant; that, back of it for the matron; and 
the hall-room for the pharmacist. On the left 
of the front room is the Isolating Ward. So 
complete is the method of isolation in conta- 
gious diseases, that on several occasions 
epidemics of these rapidly communicable ail- 
ments have invaded the wards and each time, 
by removing the patient as soon as the disease 
was apparent, and cutting of all communica- 
tion, the disease has been confined to two or 
three little children. In such extreme cases, 
the nurse is not allowed to come into contact 
with anyone outside of the ward. The fourth 
is used for the Eye and Ear Ward, and is 
under the charge of Dr. W. V. Marmion, a 
gentleman skilled in his specialty. It is so HELPING HANDS. 
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arranged that the amount of southern light can 
be regulated to suit the purposes of Ophthal- 
mic Surgery. 
The fourth story is used for colored patients 
and has all the conveniences of the other wards. 
There are dumb-waiters for food and soiled 
linen running from the top to the ground floor. 
On the south front there is a two-story 
porch inclosed with glass. This was recently 
constructed by the lady visitors from money 
raised from fines. It is intended as a play- 
room for those children who are able to leave 
the'wards. Being exposed to the sun during 
the entire day the temperature is seldom too 
low to admit of the convalescents availing 
themselves of a sun-bath. 
The wings are separated from the main 
building by enclosed corridors. Each of these 
is provided with four large windows through 
which a strong draught is constantly passing. 
By this means the effluvia from the wards is 
prevented from invading the main building 
and the germs from the isolating ward from 
passing into the general wards. 
The first floor front in the wing is used for 
the dispensary at which a daily average of 
forty patients are treated. At the extreme 
left is a cozy consulting room. Into this the 
patient is ushered from a large and comfortable 
waiting room next to it. Each patient is 
examined and a complete history of the case, 
with the treatment, is recorded by the phy- 
sician in charge. He passes with his prescrip- 
to the handsomely equipped and well conducted 
drug room, where a licensed pharmacist fills 
the recipe and cautions the parents in many 
instances in the use of the medicine. In many 
cases the patient becomes too ill to be brought 
back to the dispensary, and the parents are 
unwilling to have him enter the hospital. In 
these cases he is transferred to the care of the 
out-door physician, who visits him at his 
home, administers to his ailment, and orders 
the drugs; all without remuneration, and fre- 
quently without thanks. The dispensary ser- 
vices are four in number, two medical, an eye 
and ear, and a surgical. They are under the 
supervision of the attending physicians, but 
the assistant attending physicians, Drs. S. S. 
Adams, A. Y. P. Garnett, Jr., and T. E. Mc- 
Ardle usually attend to them. The hours of 
service are from 2 to 4 p.m., but emergency 
case are attended to by the resident staff at all 
hours. 
In going through the corridor on the second 
floor one passes four series of folding doors be- 
fore entering the surgical ward. Between the 
second series are the water-closets and bath- 
rooms; between the third, on the south side, 
is a neat and comfortable dining room for the 
patients who are able to leave their beds, 
while bed tables are provided for the very ill 
patients. One must see the bright faces sitting 
around their little table, with their clean bibs 
and greasy features, to fully realize that 
childish troubles are soon forgotten. Just 
opposite is the nurse’s private room, but she is 
required to sleep in the ward. 
On entering the last two doors, a beautiful 
view is opened to the visitor. He sees a long 
room with six large windows on either side, 
and a bay-window at the end. The floor is 
nicely polished, the bed linen is immaculate, 
and every appointment is perfection and neat- 
ness itself. He will soon be greeted by smiling 
faces and childish salutations, and will be lucky 
if he gets half the length of the room without 
having his legs tangled by several youngsters 
swinging to his coat-tails. There are twelve 
beds on either side. These beds are two kinds, 
one for surgical purposes, the other with falling 
sides for the younger children. At the head 
of every bed, nailed to the wall too high for 
the child to reach, is a walnut shelf for the 
medicine of the patient occupying that bed. 
Under this shelf is a card with the name of 
the occupant, his age, sex, color and residence, 
the diagnosis and diet, and the name of his 
physician, plainly written, so that there need 
be no mistakes in drugs after they are placed 
in the wards. Between the beds are unique 
walnut tables for the toys, books and play- 
things. 
This ward is under the care of Dr. J. Ford 
Thompson, who devotes himself exclusively to 
surgery, and who was in Europe studying the 
art when Dr. Ashford died, but came home to 
accept this position. He is a brilliant operator 10S 
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and a successful surgeon, and has performed 
every operation known to surgery. His suc- 
cess in antiseptic and subcutaneous surgery 
has been phenomenal. 
The corresponding ward on the third floor, 
is used for vied cal patients. This is under 
the care of Dr. S. C. Busey, whose experience 
and success with the diseases of children have 
given him an enviable and far-reaching reputa- 
tion, and Dr. George N. Acker, a prominent 
and learned young practioner. The bedsteads 
in this ward are of uniform pattern and have 
overhanging canopies. The wards are never 
without a nurse in neat and uniform dress and 
cap. One nurse is able to care for the patients 
in a ward, but extra nurses are alwav on hand 
for emergencies. 
On the outside of the wards, back and front, 
are iron fire-escapes running to the top of the 
house. 
The entire building is heated by an auto- 
matic steam apparatus utilizing both direct 
and indirect radiation. In each ward, near 
the bay-window, is a large circular radiator 
which furnishes the direct heat. On either 
side are two flues which convey the outside 
air, after it has passed over heated coils in 
the ground floor, thereby furnishing to the 
ward abundance of pure air warmed by indirect 
radiation; and by an ingenious contrivance 
the nurse is enabled to admit pure air, un- 
heated, through these same flues. She is 
required to record the temperature every six 
hours on a piece of paper hanging near the 
thermometer, so that the physician at each 
visit may see whether or not the proper tem- 
perature has been maintained during the 
twenty-four hours. 
The ventilation of the entire building is ex- 
cellent and besides that obtained from the 
use of the windows, is aided by four flues, with 
registers at ceiling and floor, in the corners of 
the ward, through which, run steam pipes. 
By means of these heated pipes a constant 
current is made to pass through the flues 
which draws out the impure atmosphere while 
fresh air is pouring in under the center of the 
ward. 
The hygienic condition of the building is 
nearly perfect. It is seldom that the least un- 
pleasant odor can be detected, even in the 
colored where there are rarely less than twenty- 
five of that race. In a sanitary point of view 
it may be interesting- to note there has never 
been surgical fever in the house in spite of the 
fact that there are all sorts of cases in the 
wards. 
The system of daily and weekly inspections 
precludes the possibility of covering up diet. 
Two or three of the ladies visit and in- 
spect the Hospital every day. There is no 
stated time for their visits so that nothing can 
be arranged for their coming. On Saturdays, 
these ladies, one director and the chairman 
of the Hospital Administration make a 
thorough inspection and correct any irregu- 
larities. These inspections are so rigid that 
the man-servant insists upon having time to 
shave before they take place. Full accounts 
of these inspections, with comments and 
recommendations are recorded in a book, 
signed by the committee, and sent to the 
Hospital Administration at its monthly meet- 
ing. 
No red tape” is required to gain admission 
to this institution. The sick child can be 
taken directly to the Hospital by anyone, 
where he will be examined by one of the 
physicians, and if found a fit subject he is 
admitted at once. Of course contagious cases 
are not admitted; however, if any develop 
after admission it is specially provided for by 
complete isolation. As this is not an asylum, 
chronic eases which cannot be benefitted by 
treatment, are excluded, and children must 
be removed as soon as discharged. One of the 
praiseworthy rules is that no distinction is 
made between free and pay patients. There 
are no private rooms, but patients who are 
able to pay are expected to do so at the rate of 
three dollars per week for board; they are 
placed in the same ward and get the same 
ward and get the same food and attention as 
the little urchin from the alle3’S and slums. 
Pay-patients are not charged for medical 
treatment or medicines. 
All creeds and nationalities are admitted, 
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need hospital treatment and be less than 
twelve years of age. The support of the In- 
stitution is mainly derived from private sub- 
scriptions, w'ith a small annual appropriation 
from Congress. Persons paying the sum of 
live' dollars annually become contributing 
members and are thereby entitled to vote at 
the annual election of directors. 
The only persons receiving compensation 
for services are the pharmacist, matron, nurses 
and servants. The officers; medical staff’, 
directors and lady visitors give their time and 
money freely to the cause of humanity and 
charity. 
The discipline is excellent, and all correc- 
tions for violation of rules are by discretion of 
the resident physician. The children are 
managed by kind words and wholesome advice. 
No physical punishment is permitted under 
any circumstances. 
There are no closed doors as everything “ is 
open and ftbove board. Visitors are politely 
received and shown through the building at all 
times through the day; there are no prepara- 
tions made to receive them. 
The cost of maintenance per capita, is less 
than in any similar hospital in this country, 
and probably in the world. 
The diet must necessarily be strict and 
limited, but it is abundant, clean, nutritous and 
wholesome. 
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Nov 5th, 1884. 
noble institution what we long felt tl e need of 
—a plan for the treatment of our cripples. 
These had been accumulating until they, in a 
certain sense, became a hindrance to the work 
by occuping space in our limited quarters con- 
tinuously, which might be given to many otlers 
temporarily on their way to other homes. The 
Washington Hospital wras also a discovery of 
the past year, and its benefits are being enjoyed 
by one poor little sufferer. “ The Society tor 
the Protection of Children from Cruelty,” with 
the generous Secretary, has been a help and a 
strength to our hands. Through the co-opera- 
tion of this society, the doors of the Magdaline 
Asylum were opened to a poor, homeless, erring 
child, rescued from the temptations of the 
streets. The incorrible boys find a secure home 
within the walls of the refuge. Few' cases 
indeed, are there, for w'hich we cannot now in 
one wray or another provide. In sending 
children out we have been much helped by kind 
friends, railroad conductors and the travelling 
public. While the reponsibilities of the work 
wrere never greater, our facilities wrere never 
better, nor our prospects for doing good 
brighter. 
HELPFUL MOTTOS. 
The most powerful, perhaps of all modern 
watchwords are the Wardsw'orth mottoes. A 
noble mechanic of that name filled with Christ- 
ian enthusiasm for doing good to everbody by 
word and deed, adopted these mottos: 
Look up and not down. 
Look forward and not backward. 
Look out and not in and lend a helping hand. 
At his funeral, ten persons whom he had 
helped to nobler lives by what he wTas, by 
w'hat he had said and done, agreed that they 
would adopt his mottoes, and seek to respect his 
spirit and w'ork. Edward Everett Hale told the 
story, with a spice of fiction added, in “ Ten 
Times One.” Thousands of readers of that 
book have adopted the mottos for themselves, 
and made them also the flag of temperance so- 
cieties and charitable clubs, until the Wards- 
worth mottoes are now the banner of more than 
ten times ten thousands. Multitudes have been 
HOW WE WORK TOGETHER. 
Those who are engaged in the same cause may 
help each other wonderfully by cordial co- 
operation. We scarcely know what the outcome 
of a work may be until the varions resources 
have been applied. There is often much suffer- 
ing simply because those who suffer and those 
who are willing to help are unknown to each 
other. During the last year and especially 
during the few months past, we have been much 
helped and encouraged by the co-operation of 
other societies. Through the Children’s Aid 
Society of Philadelphia we gained access to the 
Children’s Hospital. We discovered in this 110 
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led by these watchwords to “ look up ” to God, 
and “not down” to discouragements. Such 
looking is Faith. They have been led to “ look 
forward” with earnest purpose and “ not back- 
ward ” in vain regrets. Such looking forward 
is Hope. They have been led, instead of look- 
ing “in” at self, their own aches, their own 
interests, their own imperfections, to “look out ” 
in earnest search for opportunities to do good, 
and “lend a hand,” to comfort the sorrowing, 
help the needy, and lift up the sinful. That is 
charity. Let us all, in heart at least, unite with 
these countless “look up” legions under the 
banner of the AVardsworth mottos.—Successful 
Men of To-day. 
No money is better applied by the authorities 
of state or county than that which prevents 
crime and abolishes pauperism. In certain 
measures the present cost cannot be considered. 
The amount invested may bring returns of profit 
by saving expense. Just money invested may 
profit by increasing the income. 
“ Duty; wondrous thought, that workest 
neither by fond insinuations, flattery, nor by any 
threat, but merely by holding up thy naked law 
in the soul, and so extorting for thyself always 
reverence, if not always obedience; before whom 
all appetites are dumb, however secretly they 
rebel! ”.—Kant. 
It is a weak argument to set dollars against 
the destiny of a human soul when it is clear that 
a question of right is involved. 
“ Those impulses to conduct which, last the 
longest, and are rooted the deepest, always have 
their origin near our birth.” 
Charity and pride have different aims, but both 
feed the poor. 
In Fatth and Hope the world will disagree, 
But all mankind’s concerned in Charity : 
All must be false that thwart this one great end ; 
And all of God, that bless mankind, or mend. 
—Pope. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
Mk D. Emmert: Dear Friend—[We regret to 
learn that Helping Hands has not paid the ex- 
pense of publication during the past year. A pay- 
ing subscription list of 450 out of a circulation of 
1,200 a month, does not impeach the motive of its 
editor very much. Please give me the floor and let 
me say a word to your readers.] 
Dear Readers : AVe were present at the first 
meeting held to inaugurate a system of charity in 
behalf of needy children in the town of Huntingdon. 
From giving relief to the urgent cases of need that 
forced themselves upon the attention of citizens in 
their immediate vicinity, grew the Home. Our 
knowledge of the movement, from its inception to 
the present, has precluded all doubt of the purity 
and disinterestedness of all engaged in it. AVe know 
that it has led them to continue sacrifices of time 
and means. The past years have proven what may 
be done. The work cannot stop. There are yet 
children to be helped and saved. There is room for 
improvement of our methods and need of maintain- 
ing an interest. Judging by own experience Help- 
ing Hands has been an important factor in the suc- 
cess of this work. Having removed from the town 
shortly after the establishment of the Home, my 
interest has been kept alive by the monthly visits of 
the paper. My knowledge of charitable work has 
been extended by the accounts it has given and new 
ideas have been gathered from the methods pursued 
in other places. AVithout flattery to its editor, we 
think Helping Hands has been ably conducted. 
Its columns has furnished nothing uninteresting and 
much that is quite entertaining, yet at the same time 
intensely applicable to the subject. We need a pa- 
per. New contributors and new workers need to be 
enlisted and directed. Reports and acknowledg- 
ments can best be made through its columns, be- 
sides the importance of the field of labor demand its 
own special literature. Let us therefore ask our 
neighbors to subscribe for Helping Hands. But 
few, when we solicit to subscribe will refuse, if the 
cause be properly presented. It is evidently the 
cheapest way of working up the cause. 
Let us share the burdens and the more than com- 
pensating luxury of this good work as widely as pos- 
sible. J. G. C. 
Brady Twp , Hunt. County, Pa. 
[The following is not unlike many of the letters 
we received and we give it as a sample and to show 
from what source comes the encouragement in this 
responsible, often perplexing and trying work.—Ed. ] 
Nov. 29, 1884. 
Dear Sir:—Our little boy has given entire satis- HELPING HANDS. 
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faction. We are quite attached to him already and 
he would not be willing to leave us even to return 
to the “ Home” where he received such kindness, 
but I hope in the future he may be able to show his 
gratitude to all who have been friends in his child- 
hood. Thanks for supplying us with such a prom- 
ising boy. You are engaged in a noble work, and 
the Lord will bless it. 
Respectfully yours, 
Mrs. J. E. H. 
Stuarts Draft, Va. 
NOTES. 
The Infants Home of Philadelphia now has a resi- 
dent physician. 
There are several nice little boys in the Home at 
Chambersburg for whom good homes are wanted. 
The Franklin County Children’s Aid Society has 
taken a small house and nowr have a dozen children 
in its Home. 
A Sunday-school is held at the Chambersburg 
Home every Sunday afternoon. Pleasant times are 
had. The children enjoy the hour. 
There is a little girl in the Home at Chambers- 
burg who lately came from Germany. Her father 
and mother both died and were buried at sea. Poor 
little orphan. May she find father and mother and 
friends. 
Several years ago the Houtzdale Helping Hand 
Society was organized. Being a swell association it 
did not aspire to do great things but it still preserves 
its life and will no doubt be a starting point for 
Cumberland county’s work. 
There is no disagreement upon the subject of the 
removal of children froiq the contaminating influ- 
ences of the alms houses among stewards and direc- 
tors. It is strange that there should be among citi- 
zens of any rank. Nothing but false ideas of econo- 
my will furnish argument in opposition. 
The Directors of the Poor of Franklin County co- 
operate heartily with the Aid Society in removing 
the children from the Alms house. They appropri- 
ate a stated sum weekly. They have enough chil- 
dren under their charge to employ the energies of 
the young association for some time to come. 
The Directors of the Poor of Cumberland County 
were quite successful in finding homes for their 
children during the last six months. They still have 
about 20 on hand. The rich and the populous coun- 
ty of Cumberlond should have an active organiza- 
tion for the help of its poor children for there are 
many whose names are not on the alms house books. 
The Third Annual Thanksgiving Donation was 
made to the Huntingdon Home, in the Old Baptist 
Church, Nov. 26th in the evening. The contribu- 
tions were liberal. The sacks sent out were re- 
turned—many of them—well filled with substantials. 
The children think it will come at Christmas. 
The Home at Huntingdon, Pa. had a very agree- 
able visit from one of the lady managers of the 
newly established Home at Huntington, Indiana. 
The movement in Indiana grew out of the convic- 
tion that the almshouse is not the place for 
children. Tho country authorities purchased a 
house and pay 30 cents per day for the care of the 
children 
Oct. 28th a little boy who had been in the Home 
at Huntinlulon nearly two years was taken to the 
Children’s Hospital, Philadelphia. He was operated 
upon for the straightening of a crooked foot. A 
week or two later four others were sent from 
Hagerstown, three of whom were operated upon for 
deformities of the lower limbs. These children are 
visited by committees from the Children’s Aid 
Societies and received marked attention. Their im- 
provement is confidently expected 
The Thanksgiving offering to the “ Home ” at 
Hagerstown was most liberal. Last Thanksgiving 
the event was conspicuous by the entire absence of 
all evidence of a remembrance of the few children 
then in the Home. The outpouring of this fall is 
encouraging. It shows a substantial growth in 
interest, and appreciation of the work accomplished. 
Five hundred sacks were sent out which served the 
purpose of gentle reminders to mail}’willing contrib- 
utors This day and week will long he remembered. 
Nov. 15th a little girl was sent from Huntingdon 
to a gentleman in Maryland. The arrangement was 
made to meet her in Harrisburg. The train on 
which she came was late and the gentleman had to 
leave before her arrival. He made arrangements 
to have her met and taken charge of and to be sent 
on the following morning. Unfortunately there was 
a slip in the arrangement and the child was left 
alone in the depot. As she says she did not wait 
long to cry, some good person took charge of her, 
and sent her to the office of the Women’s Christian 
Association, where she was tenderly cared for until 
Monday morning, when she was put on the train 
and sent to Hagerstown. 
The misfortue of the child we trust, will be blessed 
to our good, for in the Harrisburg Association has 
been found willing helpers in the cause. Hereafter 
no child need be alone when its coming is known. 
We have reason to thank God for the good people 
whom his spirit constrains to work for those who 
are in need. Prospectus of “Helping Hands.” 
TO FORMER SUBSCRIBERS OF “HELPING HANDS:1’ 
We take the liberty of addressinp this letter to those who at some time or through the entire period of its publication have 
been subscribers to Helping Hands. The special work which this little sheet has represented has so extended itself that the 
continuation of the paper as a means of communication is deemed essential to the continued growth and efficiency of the enter- 
prise. There is constant need of that co-operation which will secure homes for children and sympathy with the friendless. 
Through the kindness of readers of Helping Hands our labors have been much lightened at times and it is believed that by the 
representation of what we may justly call success and improvements in methods, this system of caring for poor children may be 
much extended. We do not propose to make rash promises for the future. You have known our failings in the past. Lack of 
means and help, multiplied cares and sickness has prevented us from making Helping Hands what we desire it should be. Withal 
we have been encouraged, even in the face of financial loss, for direct benefits have come to many poor children through its 
agency. We have found homes and received money, and feel that yet seeds are germinating that will yield good fruit. There are 
many ways opening for doing good. The circle of workers is widening, and we feel that we need a chain to bind us together. 
But for the solicitation of some of our earliest and firmest friends we would have discontinued this effort. We can go on only by 
earnest endeavor. With, we trust, pardonable freedom, we come to those who know or have had the means of knowing our pur- 
poses best. 
Now, may we kindly ask, for the sake of the cause we desire in our weakness to serve, the continuation of your patronage. 
To enable us as quickly as possible to determine upon our plans for the coming year, we ask that the attached blanks be filled 
out and sent as directed at the earliest possible date. The money need not accompany the renewal. Those unable to pay the 
subscription price can have the paper free or for such sums as they can give. 
To Agents, we will give a, free copy for five names—new or old. Let the name of the Agent be added to the list and mark- 
ed “Agent.” 
Address, HELPING HANDS, Huntingdon, Pa. 
Enclosed find Subscriptions to Helping Hands for 1885. 
NAME. P. (). COUNTY. STATE. 
I 1885. 
1885. 
HELPING HANDS. 
At a late meeting of the Managers of the Home, at Huntingdon, 
Pa., it was resolved that Helping Hands be continued. Very flatter- 
ing testimonials were given of the helpfulness of the paper, showing, 
how in manv instances, homes were lound for children and large 
sums of money received, not by its solicitations, but its quiet influence. 
The proportions the work has assumed and the importance of main- 
taining a wide public interest argued the necessity of an organ of com- 
munication. 
It was thought almost impossible to continue, but a new inspira- 
tion has been gained and at this late date we send out prospectus and 
forms of subscription and trust for a prompt response by the first of 
the year. 
Send all names of subscribers and money to 
HELPING HANDS, 
Huntingdon, Pa. 
Address communications for publication and private matter to 
D. EMMHRT, 
Hagerstown, Md